AnAge entry for Manis crassicaudata
Classification (HAGRID: 02652)
- Taxonomy
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia (Taxon entry)
Order: Pholidota
Family: Manidae
Genus: Manis
- Species
- Manis crassicaudata
- Common name
- Indian pangolin
- Synonyms
- Pholidotus indicus
Lifespan, ageing, and relevant traits
- Maximum longevity
- Not yet established
- Observations
Little is known about the longevity of these animals. One captive specimen lived for 19.3 years [0671]. Probably some animals live over 20 years, though detailed longevity studies are lacking.
Life history traits (averages)
- Female sexual maturity
- 755 days
- Male sexual maturity
- Gestation
- 67 days
- Weaning
- Litter size
- 1 (viviparous)
- Litters per year
- 1
- Inter-litter interval
- 365 days
- Weight at birth
- 350 g
- Weight at weaning
- Adult weight
- 13,015 g
- Postnatal growth rate
Metabolism
- Typical body temperature
- 307ºK or 33.4ºC or 92.1ºF
- Basal metabolic rate
- 6.9230 W
- Body mass
- 15910.0 g
- Metabolic rate per body mass
- 0.000435 W/g
References
- [1308] Myhrvold et al. (2015), An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles
- [0978] Jones et al. (2009), PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals
- [0671] Richard Weigl (2005), Longevity of Mammals in Captivity; from the Living Collections of the World
- [0036] Savage et al. (2004), The predominance of quarter-power scaling in biology
- [0420] White and Seymour (2003), Mammalian basal metabolic rate is proportional to body mass2/3 (PubMed)
- [0730] Smith et al. (2003), Body mass of late Quaternary mammals
- [0434] Ronald Nowak (1999), Walker's Mammals of the World
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- ITIS 728008
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